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Great Western Railway’s Last Look Forward (Reprint of Next Station) by Chris
The Great Western Railways Last Look Forward (Reprint of Next Station) by Christian Barman
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
113 pages
Copyright 1972
CONTENTS
PAGE
INTRODUCTIONI
CHAPTER ONE: THE PASSENGER SERVICE
The Railway Goes On - Punctuality - More and Faster Trains - The Holiday Puzzle - Special Facilities - Catering - The Buffet Service - Sleepers.6
CHAPTER TWO: THE FREIGHT SERVICE
Standards of Efficiency - Express Freight Trains - Special Traffics - Et Circenses -- The Travelling Post Office - Road and Rail - Planned Distribution - The Small Consignment - The Birmingham ExperimentI7
CHAPTER THREE: LOCOMOTIVES
Problems of Motive Power - New Construction - Technical Development - The County Class -
Oil Burning Locomotives - Railcars - Shunting - Streamlining - The Gas Turbine.27
CHAPTER FOUR: TRAINS
The Return to Normal - Passenger Coaches - New Methods and Materials - Freight Trains - Construction versus Repairs - Special Duty Wagons - Containers and Tanks - Trains of the Future - New Interiors - Design Research .. 41
CHAPTER FIVE: THE MEN
Team Work - Recruitment and Education - Practical Training - The Ex-Service Man - Housing and Lodging - Railwaymen at Play54
CHAPTER SIX: STATIONS
Spring Clean - Plans and Priorities - Standards of Design - Food and Drink - New Stations - The Question of Tracks - Joint Stations - Road Improvements - The City Plan - Plymouth of the Future - The End of the Road. 61
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE SYSTEM
Problems of Renewal - Extensions - Track Programmes - Greater London - New Towns for
Old - Facilities for Industry - Engineering Technique - Prefabrication - New Tools and Plant73
CHAPTER EIGHT: SIGNALLING
Safety First - Automatic Train Catrol in Action - Track Circuiting - Signalling of the Future -
Into the Ether - Signals Headquarters.84
CHAPTER NINE: GROWTH OF A REGION
The Great Western and South Wales - Wartime Beginnings - Welsh Industry - The Eastern
South Wales Ports - Port Talbot - Swansea - On the Seas ..92
CHAPTER TEN: MINE HOST
The Hotel Service - Renovations - Holidays: New Style - Business Hotels ...103
CONCLUSION108
By the time this book was published, just before nationalisation, it had become clear that the Great Western's last look forward was a theoretic exercise; soon the question was to be what Great Western features would be accepted by British Railways as a whole, and which rationalised out of existence. But when the material on which the book is based was being produced, the GW genuinely planned its own continued greatness in a chanaina era.
As had happened at earlier times in the railway's history planning involved a mixture of updated traditionalism and more far-reaching innovation. Here we can see something of the GWR that never was. This is a reprint of the book originally published by the GWR in 1947 under the title Next Station. Christian Barman briefly renews his association with the railway to contribute a new introduction to his book.
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